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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"contemporary novels"”.
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The Riddle of Turandot
… entitled The Representation of Older Women in Contemporary Fiction. Feminist theorists argue that it is difficult if not impossible to represent feminine subjectivity within the constraints of a phallocentric language. In my essay I will show that the fictional portrayal of older women is even …
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Meaningful Reading: Broadening Perspectives Through Literature
… biographies, autobiographies, classics and contemporary novels. By using different forms of literature, students can gain global awareness and broad perspectives, and develop an appreciation for the literacy, historical, cultural and emotional content in books.</p> <p>Strategies explored …
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Feedback Exhaust: Money and the Novel at the End of the Contemporary
<p>In the contemporary context of global financialization, the distance between the categories of money and fiction has been theorized as narrowing. This dissertation uses a Marxist analytic to argue that financialized money and fiction, as two modes of accounting, should be approached as competing …
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Time and memory in the novels of Eleanor Dark
… and memory. Time informs the structure of her novels, she juxtaposes past and present. Memory in all its aspects, personal, cultural, racial dominates both her contemporary novels and The Timeless Land trilogy. The thesis considers Dark's fiction in sequence to chart her treatment of time and …
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Contemporary American Authors' Questioning of Religion
The problem. In contemporary American fiction it was noted that religion frequently appeared as a topic of debate. In some novels a major theme was a debate over whether to accept, change, or reject organized religion. Procedure. Several contemporary novels relating to this theme were read. Then …
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The white saviour complex in three contemporary American novels
… African American culture and politics in three contemporary novels: Kathryn Stockett’s historical fiction The Help (2009), the young adult novel The Hate U Give (2017) by Angie Thomas, and Kiley Reid’s satire, Such a Fun Age (2020). The former novel focuses on a white saviour figure’s attempts …
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Sweetie and the invisible malady: writing and reading type 2 diabetes
… writing PhD thesis that addresses a paradox in contemporary literature: type 2 diabetes, one of the most common chronic health conditions, which affects 589 million people worldwide and is responsible for 3.4 million deaths annually, is rare in novels. The gap is puzzling, given the number of …
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Affective Insurgencies: Circular Narratives of Conflict in Contemporary South Asian Novels
… can be deconstructed within the textual space of contemporary literature on terrorism. In chapter one, I analyze nineteenth- and twentieth-century theoretical texts in which linguists, philosophers of language, and literary and rhetorical scholars discuss both the functions of language and …
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Is that what you’re wearing? Gender diversity in contemporary fiction, a novel and exegesis
… Is That What You’re Wearing? Gender Diversity in Contemporary Fiction, A Novel and Exegesis is a creative writing doctoral thesis which critically interrogates the signifiers and tropes that are employed to produce gender diversity in contemporary fiction, and their effects and impacts. The …
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"Unspoken sermons": Christian preaching in British fiction, 1979-2004
… by Antonia Byatt and David Lodge, historical novels written by Geraldine Brooks and Jane Rogers and fiction by John Murray and Michael Arditti sited in specific religious, spiritual or ecclesiastical environments. The thesis develops an analytical toolkit, based mainly on rhetorical …
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"Power always goes on and on" : the limits of masculinity in Marabou Stork Nightmares and Fight Club
… of gender relations. I employ two popular, contemporary novels, Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club (1997) and Irvine Welsh's Marabou Stork Nightmares (1996), to examine a form of masculinity which is involved in these relations. I explore these novels with the aim of identifying the ways in which …
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Re-Imagining America: Twenty-First Century Disaster And Salvation In Contemporary Fiction
This thesis explores four contemporary novels set in the American South and analyzes the understandings of American pasts, perceptions of current social and political crises, and projections of possible future paths they contain. Cormac McCarthy's The Road and Jesmyn Ward's Salvage the Bones tell …
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Doing homework: negotiations of the domestic in twentieth-century novels of teaching
… this project, I analyze seven twentieth-century novels of teaching in order to investigate how notions of “home” and “school” are constructed, connected, and perpetuated in popular teaching narratives. Images of teachers in much of this century’s fiction often rest on views of the school as home …
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The Time Helix: Nonlinear Narrative Structures and the Paradox of Delayed Simultaneity
My study of contemporary (post-2000) Anglophone novels combines themes of time and temporality with narratological analysis. I argue that nonlinear narrative structures (which originate in science fiction novels) challenge the supposed impossibility of simultaneity in the novel, undermine the …
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Analysis and Innovation in the Novels of Thomas Hardy
… scrutiny. This leads to the stress in the later novels on the "conjectural", "unstateable" nature of character; in this, he anticipates Lawrence. Like Lawrence, too, he insisted that an 'honest portrayal' of life must be "largely concerned with, for one thing, the relations of the sexes". In this …
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American made: The homegrown terrorist and 9/11 myths in the contemporary US novel
… in post-2010 literature to determine whether contemporary novels provide a critique of the national myths reinvigorated in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States. To understand how contemporary literature speculates on the causes of terrorist behaviour and …
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Fruit, Water, Ice, Glass, Gold: Images of Human Beauty in Post-1980 Anglophone Fiction
… to speak about beauty once again. Anglophone novels of this period, from 1980 to 2012, show a particular engagement with the subject through their exploration of human beauty. By figuring the beauty of characters in metaphorical terms, they demonstrate that conceptions of human beauty as …
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Apocalypse and elegy in contemporary american fiction
… dissertation, the use of apocalypse and elegy in contemporary American literature has been explored in an attempt to draw some conclusions about America's complex twenty-first century consciousness. I have selected the millennial novels of Joyce Carol Oates (Blonde), Don DeLillo (Underworld), and …
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Collective Woundedness: Exploring intergenerational trauma and healing in Barbara Boswell’s Grace, Mohale Mashigo’s The Yearning and Kopano Matlwa’s Period Pain
… trauma and reflections on healing in three contemporary novels, namely Grace (2019) by Barbara Boswell, The Yearning (2017) by Mohale Mashigo, and Period Pain (2016) by Kopano Matlwa. These texts all reckon with the wounds of the past, and the different ways in which one can arrive at a form …
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